I think also because when people list influences they tend to take from the more extreme sides of genres such as type-o as a gothic band like you mentioned…then take pride in showing that blend of genres in their own music. Beasties were already such a blend it’s hard to pinpoint what part of their style someone was influenced by, if that makes sense. Rip mca indeed!☝🏽
@Skip Mickmack That's kinda the point.. If something resonates with white people because it's made by white people there can something be said about racial bias playing a significant role
I was really lucky to see Beastie Boys with Rancid and At the Drive-in. Still one of the best shows I've been to. Mid set, Beastie Boys played a bunch of their punk stuff. They were very energetic.
My middle school English teacher tried out for a Beastie Boys style rap group in the mid 90s. He was a drummer but they put on a beat and asked him to freestyle over it. The beat just played as he stared blankly for thirty seconds then quietly walked out of the building. He said there's nothing more embarrassing than walking home in rejection with a puma suit and a bucket hat.
That is a lvl of embarrassment that hurts. I was in a taco bell and a girl I liked worked there. Circa 96 or 97, anyways I walk up to the counter to order and flirt but then I sneezed and blew snot everywhere......yeah I ran out of there.
Kinda crazy to see you come out with this now because I was literally thinking to myself the other day that some people dont realize the level of influence the Beastie Boys had.
Not sure if you're aware, but "Fight For Your Right to Party" was meant to be satire of the whole frat party culture. The Beasties have been on record about how frustrated they were that people just took it straight as a proclamation of the culture rather than reading into the satire it was meant to be.
Oh sure, thing is...they all have admitted that it started as a joke, but then as they became popular they started living out that lifestyle and then took a 2nd look at themselves and were like, "Whoa! What are we doing?" Then we get into the "Check Your Head" era and they actually call out their previous bad behavior.
Exactly. They also tried to bring a smidge of awareness to rape culture in that music video, but sadly that of course didn’t work out the way they wanted. It wasn’t a smart move but I’m glad they apologized years later for what it appearing to support and participate in rape culture.
@@edward2962 I saw them play Dublin, Ireland back in '95 and they only played the Licence era stuff as a short medley. I really like the later stuff too, but the 'medley' thing was annoying...
I was in my senior year of high school when he went. Me and my two best friends heard that morning, we cut class, got brown bags and decorated them with monkeys. Got oj and 40s. Spun every beastie boys record I had.
@ghost mall Yeah of course jazz drummers recorded brief bursts of fast linear kick-to-snare patterns at some point before the 80s but I think those are fundamentally different than what people call a "blastbeat", where the foundational rhythm of the song is a comically fast regular snare drum pattern. Most techniques in music have been done before if you think of them super literally, but names for things are often genre-relevant. Like a brief solo percussion section in a symphony isn't the same thing as a jazz "break", for instance.
They were beyond a doubt the kings of early 90's. We were mostly into punk and "alternative" music. They brought in funk and hip hop to the scene in a big way. Huge influence for sure. Changed everything.
My dad grew up on the Beastie Boys, and I keep Paul's Boutique in my car as part of my rotation and I had to drive him somewhere a few weeks ago, so I put it in and played it and he just laughed because he hadn't heard it in so long, but I could tell memories were floating back
I don't remember what interview it was, but I do remember the Beastie Boys saying Fight For Your Right was essentially a troll song to make fun of the stereotypical "frat boys" and "entitled spoiled kids". It basically got adopted by exactly those people and is a constant running joke. I love that. That's punk as fuck to me.
Idk why i wanted to bring this up. But thats how entertainment works something. Fred durst said about Limp Bizkit. I don't remember his words exactly. But he said something on the lines of. The music was made for the losers, for the nerds, for the kids thar got beat up. Not for the jocks for fratboys. Also he love skateboarding and mixing genres. People took his music and gave it a different image, that he didn't like.
Loved The Beastie Boys as a kid. No VW was safe in our town. Edit - Atari Teenage Riot are still one of my favourite bands. Would love to see a video on them one day.
The Beastie Boys were just always there. As someone who was born in 84, their music was always in my life. I know I would never list them as an influence, but it’s impossible to understate just how much their pioneering attitude changed the world around them. Even bands like Offspring, and Blink 182, etc.
Funny thing that you mentioned Snow. The guy actually came from the streets (well, Canadian streets), ended up in prison for a moment and was raised alongside Jamaican street kids and those kids encouraged him to pursue music career. So he was basically everything he said he was, but sounded so phony that no one believed him anyway.
The Beasties are Hip-Hop's version of the Ramones or the New York Dolls. Ahead of their time, not always given their dues when they should be, and indirectly influencing tons of other artists as the years go by. Fitting that their origins lie in punk music like the aforementioned. Just goes to show how influential punk is in the grand scheme of things.
An important element to Check Your Head and Ill Communication (and some of the stuff later) that you didn't mention is the funk/jazz/groove instrumentals with some dub influences that they performed live on the albums. I think this had a big effect on downtempo music in general and the continued use of vintage soul stuff in hip hop. And it showed just how musically curious and experimental they could be, which definitely paved the way for genre-hoppers like Beck.
Absolutely! Their instrumental work is phenomenal. I honestly can't imagine Check You Head & Ill Communication not having all those amazing instrumentals on them. Those 2 albums are my 2 fav Beasties and some of my favorite from any genre because of those tracks.
@@STEVEWONDA1976 You heard "In Sounds From The Way Out" and "The Mix Up"? The two all instrumental Beastie albums? What I love about those 2 albums is I've played them for people who don't like Beastie's and they've loved them. They thought I was playing them some obscure band from the 70s.
I was fortunate enough to have really “cool” parents that didn’t police my music! I completely enjoyed Beastie Boys (Licenses to ILL) at 5 years old!! My older brother turned me on to the cassette and was hooked instantly!! That album was the very first compact disc I ever purchased! Still remember bumping ‘Brass Monkey’ on my 2-18” subs in my ride in high school!
Shoutout to these kind of parents! My parents let me listen to what ever I wanted. In the beginning when I hat no CD-Player on the living room stereo. So they got me stereo for Xmas because they didn't want to listen to the same music. This was the start of my music passion. This stereo systems still exists from the early 90s till today. I use it as amp because the the CD-Player is dead.
It was actually the very first vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital album I ever bought. It was my tradition and if a new format of music comes out in the future, guess what my first purchase will be!
i went through a massive beastie boys faze around 2007-2011 as a teen and didnt know of anyone else who listened. they're a big influence in all my artistic endeavors and i still tight roll my pants to this day.
The great thing about their era was how diverse it actually was. I saw Beastie Boys at Lollapalloza in 1994 (St. Louis), and during that tour they shared the stage w/ Smashing Pumpkins, A Tribe Called Quest, George Clinton, Green Day... pretty epic lineup
When I was in grade 8 back in 1991, I inherited a mix tape from an older kid at school that was labelled "SNFU and Beastie Boys." I remember listening to it and thinking whoever labelled the tape had made a mistake, because I only knew of Beastie Boys from their hits off of License to Ill, and all the songs on this tape were clearly punk/hardcore. Then, a few years later, when they released Some Old Bullshit, I was like 'oh shit that was Beastie Boys!' Not sure how a mixtape of Polly Wog Stew made its way to the small town in Canada where I grew up, but this brings back a lot of fond memories from this era, especially discovering new music with very few resources to do so compared to today.
I never knew how sampling got started. Big respect to those first guys doing it. Making due with the tools you have instead of making excuses is what sets apart pros and hobbyists.
The Beastie's 'Licensed to Ill' and Run D.M.C's 'Raising Hell' broke rap into the mainstream, and put it on the radar of kids like me who were into skate-punk and hardcore bands at the time. Those two albums took over every ghetto blaster on the block. The Beasties may be white, but if you look at their entire catalogue, they are definitely one of the top artists in the entire genre.
@@weasel73 😄😄 I had the cassette for Raising Hell, and the vinyl for License to Ill. I ended up copying both of them to a cassette, one on each side 👍🤘. Then had another cassette with LL Cool J's first two albums. I thought I was the shit at the local halfpipe 😄
you said it perfectly. these guys were always so unapologetically themselves in such a way that just popped. they litteraly never ever ever missed which is almost impossible
I was 17 in ’86 and “License to Ill” was MASSIVE! It absolutely changed the landscape of popular music the same way Nirvana did a few years later. It got suburban white kids into rap when the year before, they were into Iron Maiden and Motley Crue. I cannot understate the absolutely seismic shift that release had on youth culture just here in NorCal back then. For me now, “Paul’s Boutique” and especially “Check your head” and “Ill Communication” are better albums by far which I still return to… And I’m a Metalhead. Great video!
@Lincoln Hirschi I actually didn’t get turned onto them until a few years later when my tastes had matured a bit. I thought PB was “weird” when I first heard it, but those other two grabbed me and made me an instant fan! This was after being introduced to HipHop through PE and Ice-T, of course. (By way of Anthrax! Haha!)
License to Ill is cultural appropriation trash. Thank God they realized what they were doing and finally embraced real Hip Hop. The Beastie Boys of the 80s deserve an ass kicking for being racist little shits.
I got tickets for Beasties and RUN DMC summer of 19887 I was 15. Dad was mowing the lawn and had a massive heart attack. Mom called a few hours later from the hospital and she told me Dad said he knew how much that concert meant to me and I better go or he'd be mad!! Dad just turned 84 a couple weeks ago and I'll be 51 next week.
There have been a few moments in my life where I can specifically remember the very first time I heard a band, and Beasty Boys is one of those times. It was 1986, I was 12 years old and had just gotten off of the school bus with some other kids from the neighborhood. The kid that lived in the house in front of where the bus dropped us off immediately ran into his house, opened up his bedroom window and blasted Fight For Your Right as loud as his boom box would go. I was blown away bc I had never heard anything like that before, but I've been a huge fan ever since. I only got to see them live once in 1998 during the Hello Nasty tour with Tribe Called Quest in St. Louis.
To this day, I have so much respect for the beastie boys because tbh I first heard them on guitar hero 3 and fell in love. They introduced me into that music and diversified my musical outlook!
Great video, I showed my 3 and 5 year old boys the intergalactic video around 3 months ago because of the robot and now they are obsessed blasting out loads of their songs on youtube pretty much every day 🤣 This made me go back and listen to their full discography. It’s amazing from start to finish. They definitely don’t get mentioned as much as they should.
The friendship with Biz Markie led me to listen to his albums. I am thankful to this band for opening my ears to other things and learn to just enjoy music
I was lucky enough to see Beastie Boys in Dec 2004, when they toured the UK. It was my first year at Uni and I blew 2 week's food budget on tickets, travel and overpriced venue beers. It was totally worth it though. Even all these years later, it was a top 5 gig for me. I'm so happy Finn has covered Beastie Boys. He covered some different ground to the also brilliant Beastie Boys Story on Apple TV. Man, I cried my heart out to that. It's was such a beautiful love letter from the Mike D and Ad Rock to their fallen brother, MCA. For me personally, this is one of Finn's best videos ever. Love it!
Ill Communication is a start to finish album for me. This album has Sure Shot, Root Down, Heart Attack, and Eugene's Lament all on one fucking album. It's everything, and in a way that makes it New York as fuck, and I will always love them for repping NYC so hard.
Always had love for the Beastie Boys, ever since I was in fourth grade and Intergalactic came out. Good point on their influence being such a widespread thing that people don't even realize it. A lot of musical and cultural movements wouldn't have happened without the Beasties, they really helped unite rap fans, rockers, hipsters, skaters, etc and break down a lot of musical and cultural barriers. Excellent video.
Great video. They helped me as a HS freshman Bay Area thrash metalhead discover hip hop, punk, and NYHC. And my musical palette has been expanding ever since.
I grew up with the beasties. My all time favorite band and I still play them daily. Check your Head was a huge influence on me in my adolescence. Definitely helped me branch out to more east coast rap, and some hardcore. Great video Finn.
Thank you. I've been waiting so long for you to do a video on the Beastie Boys. Their book and live documentary film were amazing like their music. RIP Adam 'MCA' Yauch.
Been there since the beginning with stake broad and boom box in hand . Can say they paved the way . I’m still a big fan and always will be . As everyone should be . Got to see them twice in the 90s . Will never forget it . Input up there as one of the high light of my life . I have seen Johnny Cash and June Carter live also ! They still influence me. Beastie Boys for life !!!!
Awesome as always Finn. I'm a few years older than you (76) and from a small country town in Victoria, Australia. I thought I was a skater as I had one of those big fat old school skateboards at the age of 9-10. So anyways, my two older sisters had a house-party and I was banished to my room. Clear as day, I remember Rhymin & Stealin pumping through the house before being ejected and a "smash hits" various pop tape replacing it. The next morning, I was stoked to find the original Licensed To Ill tape left behind. I'd never heard anything like it in my life and for some reason I figured it was "Skating Music". It took many a listen before I "got-it", but that was it for me - skating, playing bass, punk, hardcore, metal and rap was my jam from then on. Had my first weed listening to Check Your Head with my mates. First real job in IT with Hello Nasty. So many memories. The only thing I'd add to your excellent video and thoughts is that their first forays into the frat-boy raps were meant as a joke. They then leant into it further after the track(s) got picked up - and I certainly don't blame them. :o)
Once again Finn Mckenty you have managed to make me feel old LOL. I graduated high school 5 months before License to Ill came out. We immediately loved it. I had always had eclectic taste I grew up on R&B rap music was just peeking through I Remember Loving groups like Sugarhill Gang Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Kurtis Blow and that was before Run-DMC and LL Cool J really came out. At the same time I was straight up into heavy Rock young listen to Def Leppard and Motley Crue and AC DC Aerosmith. So Beastie Boys were just a natural progression to me. It took me at least a year before I really started the light Paul's Boutique because you're right it was very different from License to Ill. By the time check your head came out music to me was in an all-time high. You had the grunge movement you had gangster rap you had tons of underground bands coming to the Forefront Red Hot Chili Peppers one of my favorite bands. You had these incredible rap groups like Cypress Hill. The Beastie Boys fit in perfectly with that time it was such an Eclectic time. I mean you could love R&B you could love Pop you could love heavy metal you could love thrash. I remember when I first heard sabotage it was the year I moved away from my home to another state. I remember having that on cassette as I'm driving to my new home where I've now been for 26 years. Have to say as a fifty-three-year-old I'm incredibly proud of the Beastie Boys and the Legacy they created how they went from frat boy rappers to speaking about peace and love and respecting women and people having equal rights.
These are the copy paste wiki episodes that Finn hates to make so lets make sure we share it around, like and subscribe and even install Mech Arena and claim our free starter pack. We need to let our opinions be known.
Back in the day my mom bought my sister and I tickets to The Beastie Boys (failed) Rhyme and Reason tour. We were so bummed when the tour was canceled. I started listening to The Beastie Boys because my older and cooler sister did. I was a young alternative / metalhead, and seeing them combine so many genres definitely influenced me to broaden my musical horizons. And to not be timid or apologetic for for being into a variety of music and art.
I was 16 in 86 and saw that tour, it was a great show! That album raised the bar for party music as young teens skating . It's interesting to listen to LL Cool Js albums that came out at the time. He had a lot of the same beats and tempos. Story is that BBoys introduced LL Cool J to Rick Ruben, BBoys discovered Cool J at NYC University on the mic at a college party. They were on a mission to get Cool J in the studio with Rick.
Paul's Boutique was The Biggest Album my freshman year of college in '89. You could hear it pumping out of dorm rooms into the quad at Porter College all day, any day and every day. I have several copies of the fold out wrap around vinyl edition.
Liscenced To Ill is one of my top 5 records of any artist throughout all genres. It completely changed the way I looked at the things that defined the differences between the genres. They brought everyone together, and the record was a masterpiece. Literally every song on the record could have been a single.
The Beastie Boys are definitely one of my favourite bands and shaped so much of my musical tastes from my adolescence onwards. Long live the Beastie Boys! Rest in power Adam Yauch
Liscence to I'll was my first album I bought by them in 9th grade and I was obsessed with the Beasties all through high school and even 20 yrs later. I even had the poster for the music video for Sabotage on my wall growing up. They were such huge musical influences for me and were very talented with not only rapping and singing but playing and creating original music on each album and always staying true to themselves.
Hello Nasty didn’t do anything new musically????? Wtf?! That album is a journey. From 808 bass playing like a double kick drum, to classics like Intergalactic, there’s jazz, and some crazy one off songs that defy genre. It was groundbreaking, and once it caught on, everyone I knew was rapping this album a cappella from start to finish
The Beastie Boys are easily one of my favorite bands of all time and one of the best ever in general, imo. Been a huge fan since I was 4-5 years old and I’m almost 30 now.
The Beastie's were the quintessential band for me growing up. "She's On It" was the first single I ever heard and was able to catch them on their Hello Nasty Tour and again for Five Burroughs. Good shit.
Just a couple of months ago I was listening to all their discography and thinking of how influentials they are, and also how almost no one mention them
If you haven't yet, definitely check out the Beastie boys memoir. The audio book is also really well done being read by Mike and adam along with several other people. If you like Finn's video here you'll love the book.
A great sum up here. Too many people don't realize how important they were. "Check Your Head' was the one for me. My friend in 9th grade bought it for me for my birthday. I never looked back!! That cassette was stuck in my stereo for weeks!! Over and over. RIP MCA. x
Top 5 favorites of all time not only as a band but also as a live show. Tribe Called Quest and the Beastie Boys at old McNichols Arena in Denver 1998 hands down one of the best experiences of my life. Thanks for posting!!
I just wanted to mention the instrumental Album "The In Sound from Way Out!" from 1996. It pretty much contrasts all the other music they did. It shows a funky/jazzy side and is pretty impressive instrumentaly! And my mother loves it.... that's worth something right?
While I don’t play a genre that is influenced by their sound, they’ve influenced me so much throughout my musical career. Definitely when I was playing in punk and hardcore bands. Now the influence for me is the way they played whatever they wanted and still it somehow worked and made sense. Being able to blend genres like they did is so inspiring and keeps it interesting.
"The Beastie Boys They are, they're comin' home" I love the Beastie Boys the diversity of sounds and styles like: Time for Livin, Get it Together, So What 'cha Want, Tuff Guy, Shake Your Rump, Root Down, and so many more! Plus I still love wearing Puma's with an SNFU beanie and they play the beats using acoustic instruments! Great Episode Finn!
There's a six-part series on the history of the Beastie boys on a podcast called NO DOGS IN SPACE. It could be found on Spotify Apple music and everywhere else.
All 3 Beasties are ethnic minorities, so "white rappers" feels incredibly off (especially as someone who is of the same background as them). They're a great group, though. Was surprised to learn that they were originally a punk band. I dig the punk material too.
@@ThePunkRockMBA How is it factual if there are people who actually belong to that group (which, might I add, you don't) disagreeing with you? What you just said to me right now is textbook whitesplain, and I honestly expected better than that from you.
@@pixie71880 Basically, yeah. Jews are Levantine, so unless one considers Syrians, Jordanians, Lebanese, et al to be "white" (and I seriously doubt he would), you can't logically claim that Jews are white.
Many thanks. Never realized how Beasties impacted so many different scenes. Maybe the reason no one cites them as an influence is it was always hard to hold them down - their style changes too quickly and most people stick to 1 lane. They reinvented themselves so many times, people just got confused - they were decades ahead of their time on so many fronts.
Beastie Boys and Prodigy are the two bands that pretty much paved the way to our current scene where genres are all mixed and alternative culture embodies basically everything.
Beastie Boys are largely overlooked for their influence and contributions. I grew up on these guys. Got to see them with the Buddhist monks and Q-Tip back in the 90s. Much love and happiness over the years because "life ain't nothing but a good groove, a good mix tape to put you in the right mood." 💛
I got to see them with Run DMC in DC in 1987 as a 10 year old. 😂 I'm not even a big hip/hop fan but that was very much an amazing, life changing experience. One of the greatest shows I've ever been to still to this day 🤘
Beastie Boys have been my favorite band for 12+ years now. They inadvertently turned me to the hardcore/deathcore/metalcore scene simply because some of their riffs were just so damn heavy.
I love the Beastie Boys and even had the thrill of meeting them backstage way back in 2004. Thanks for putting together this great history video. I think the reason they don’t get cited as an influence is because of how many times they reinvented themselves. If an artist said they were influenced by them, the next question is, which era? It’s probably easier to cite a band with a more consistent sound as an influence. But of course, the reinvention is what made them great.
Never got to see them live, but they were a huge influence with rap music....but. Check Your Head was just something else. Such a great album. Combo of the rap and then them playing their instruments, sort of punk rock mindset, and it worked. Definitely in my top 10 all time albums.
I had no idea about how influential they were. But it makes sense. I remember listening to the Teriyaki Boyz and seeing Adrock featured / producing for them. Also, I'm a big fan of Butter 08, which was signed to Grand Royal.
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I think also because when people list influences they tend to take from the more extreme sides of genres such as type-o as a gothic band like you mentioned…then take pride in showing that blend of genres in their own music.
Beasties were already such a blend it’s hard to pinpoint what part of their style someone was influenced by, if that makes sense.
Rip mca indeed!☝🏽
Thank you for the lecture 🙏
@Skip Mickmack That's kinda the point.. If something resonates with white people because it's made by white people there can something be said about racial bias playing a significant role
Saw em in 94 on the lollapalooza tour in st Paul MN
I was really lucky to see Beastie Boys with Rancid and At the Drive-in. Still one of the best shows I've been to. Mid set, Beastie Boys played a bunch of their punk stuff. They were very energetic.
Incredible!
I live all of those bands to DEATHHHG
What a line up! I’ve never been a beastie boys fan but I’d live in a Walmart bathroom for a week to see ATDI live.
That is a crazy line up
Only in the 90s, correct?
Beastie Boys taught me that being original and creative is cooler than anything else.
And its still is!
My middle school English teacher tried out for a Beastie Boys style rap group in the mid 90s. He was a drummer but they put on a beat and asked him to freestyle over it. The beat just played as he stared blankly for thirty seconds then quietly walked out of the building. He said there's nothing more embarrassing than walking home in rejection with a puma suit and a bucket hat.
😂
That is a lvl of embarrassment that hurts.
I was in a taco bell and a girl I liked worked there. Circa 96 or 97, anyways I walk up to the counter to order and flirt but then I sneezed and blew snot everywhere......yeah I ran out of there.
@@slicksilver9441 one word " tissues! "
@@BirdOfHermes83 bruh, shit still haunts me to this day
Baha I love your story. 100% believe ya non sarcastically. Hello. Lets be pals. Lol🎉
Kinda crazy to see you come out with this now because I was literally thinking to myself the other day that some people dont realize the level of influence the Beastie Boys had.
“Legendary” is not enough to say how awesome they are
Not sure if you're aware, but "Fight For Your Right to Party" was meant to be satire of the whole frat party culture. The Beasties have been on record about how frustrated they were that people just took it straight as a proclamation of the culture rather than reading into the satire it was meant to be.
Oh sure, thing is...they all have admitted that it started as a joke, but then as they became popular they started living out that lifestyle and then took a 2nd look at themselves and were like, "Whoa! What are we doing?" Then we get into the "Check Your Head" era and they actually call out their previous bad behavior.
Exactly. They also tried to bring a smidge of awareness to rape culture in that music video, but sadly that of course didn’t work out the way they wanted. It wasn’t a smart move but I’m glad they apologized years later for what it appearing to support and participate in rape culture.
@@edward2962 I saw them play Dublin, Ireland back in '95 and they only played the Licence era stuff as a short medley. I really like the later stuff too, but the 'medley' thing was annoying...
It's always better to party for your right to fight.
@@fintanoclery2698 is that a Twin Dragon Encounter reference?
We miss you, MCA.
Indeed. From my first discovering them, he was always the coolest Beastie to me.
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@@kaogoogle1031 Whatever.
I was in my senior year of high school when he went. Me and my two best friends heard that morning, we cut class, got brown bags and decorated them with monkeys. Got oj and 40s. Spun every beastie boys record I had.
@@Schitzafriendly THAT'S a sendoff!
The Beastie Boys having possibly the earliest recorded blastbeat is so funny
@ghost mall Yeah of course jazz drummers recorded brief bursts of fast linear kick-to-snare patterns at some point before the 80s but I think those are fundamentally different than what people call a "blastbeat", where the foundational rhythm of the song is a comically fast regular snare drum pattern. Most techniques in music have been done before if you think of them super literally, but names for things are often genre-relevant. Like a brief solo percussion section in a symphony isn't the same thing as a jazz "break", for instance.
Paul's Boutique holds up so well it's insane. It might be their best album still.
Yes.
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Correct
There's an album out that's all the mix tracks without the vocals, that was pretty cool.
It was their best album.
They were beyond a doubt the kings of early 90's. We were mostly into punk and "alternative" music. They brought in funk and hip hop to the scene in a big way. Huge influence for sure. Changed everything.
My dad grew up on the Beastie Boys, and I keep Paul's Boutique in my car as part of my rotation and I had to drive him somewhere a few weeks ago, so I put it in and played it and he just laughed because he hadn't heard it in so long, but I could tell memories were floating back
Wholesome af
Paul's Boutique was me and my roommates go-to album in college. Every night after finishing homework we'd put the album on and get as high as we could
I don't remember what interview it was, but I do remember the Beastie Boys saying Fight For Your Right was essentially a troll song to make fun of the stereotypical "frat boys" and "entitled spoiled kids". It basically got adopted by exactly those people and is a constant running joke. I love that. That's punk as fuck to me.
Idk why i wanted to bring this up. But thats how entertainment works something. Fred durst said about Limp Bizkit. I don't remember his words exactly. But he said something on the lines of. The music was made for the losers, for the nerds, for the kids thar got beat up. Not for the jocks for fratboys. Also he love skateboarding and mixing genres. People took his music and gave it a different image, that he didn't like.
That's why the beastie boys are legends.
Loved The Beastie Boys as a kid. No VW was safe in our town.
Edit - Atari Teenage Riot are still one of my favourite bands. Would love to see a video on them one day.
I'll never forget the first time I heard Delete Yourself🤘🏼🤘🏼
Yes! Atari Teenage Riot are amazing and were one of the most extreme punk bands of their day in both message and sound!
The Beastie Boys were just always there. As someone who was born in 84, their music was always in my life. I know I would never list them as an influence, but it’s impossible to understate just how much their pioneering attitude changed the world around them. Even bands like Offspring, and Blink 182, etc.
Funny thing that you mentioned Snow. The guy actually came from the streets (well, Canadian streets), ended up in prison for a moment and was raised alongside Jamaican street kids and those kids encouraged him to pursue music career. So he was basically everything he said he was, but sounded so phony that no one believed him anyway.
That's hilarious and sad at the same time
He was in jail when "Informer" music video premiered!
@@skipp10467 definitely hilarious!
He’s the Canadian vanilla ice. Plain and simple. Being raised alongside Jamaicans doesn’t make one Jamaican.
When I think of Snow I think of that Jim Carrey skit on In Living Color the song was called Impostor instead of Informer hilarious 😂🤣 Stuff
The Beasties are Hip-Hop's version of the Ramones or the New York Dolls. Ahead of their time, not always given their dues when they should be, and indirectly influencing tons of other artists as the years go by. Fitting that their origins lie in punk music like the aforementioned. Just goes to show how influential punk is in the grand scheme of things.
I read it 3 times... Always reading "The Beatles" and thinking you're insane 😂
Paul’s Boutique and De La Soul’s 3 Feet and Rising are psychedelic/abstract hip hop masterpieces
An important element to Check Your Head and Ill Communication (and some of the stuff later) that you didn't mention is the funk/jazz/groove instrumentals with some dub influences that they performed live on the albums. I think this had a big effect on downtempo music in general and the continued use of vintage soul stuff in hip hop. And it showed just how musically curious and experimental they could be, which definitely paved the way for genre-hoppers like Beck.
The Beastie Boys instrumentals sounded exactly like The Meters. Greta stuff.
Absolutely! Their instrumental work is phenomenal. I honestly can't imagine Check You Head & Ill Communication not having all those amazing instrumentals on them. Those 2 albums are my 2 fav Beasties and some of my favorite from any genre because of those tracks.
@@STEVEWONDA1976 You heard "In Sounds From The Way Out" and "The Mix Up"? The two all instrumental Beastie albums?
What I love about those 2 albums is I've played them for people who don't like Beastie's and they've loved them. They thought I was playing them some obscure band from the 70s.
I still love those instrumentals!
Dude you should write for magazine. If they still have those. Lol
One of the greatest groups of all time regardless of genre. Truly genius levels of creativity and innovation along with a lot of wit and charisma.
Check your head is a fantastic album. Probably my favorite beastie boys album. It spans the whole spectrum of musical genres.
I was fortunate enough to have really “cool” parents that didn’t police my music! I completely enjoyed Beastie Boys (Licenses to ILL) at 5 years old!! My older brother turned me on to the cassette and was hooked instantly!! That album was the very first compact disc I ever purchased! Still remember bumping ‘Brass Monkey’ on my 2-18” subs in my ride in high school!
I was another 13 year old really into license to ill. I had the cd and vinyl.
Shoutout to these kind of parents! My parents let me listen to what ever I wanted. In the beginning when I hat no CD-Player on the living room stereo. So they got me stereo for Xmas because they didn't want to listen to the same music. This was the start of my music passion. This stereo systems still exists from the early 90s till today. I use it as amp because the the CD-Player is dead.
Same here. I was obsessed with them as a kid. Had all their CDs/Tapes and listened to them constantly. Still do honestly.
It was actually the very first vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital album I ever bought. It was my tradition and if a new format of music comes out in the future, guess what my first purchase will be!
Ditto.
i went through a massive beastie boys faze around 2007-2011 as a teen and didnt know of anyone else who listened. they're a big influence in all my artistic endeavors and i still tight roll my pants to this day.
The great thing about their era was how diverse it actually was. I saw Beastie Boys at Lollapalloza in 1994 (St. Louis), and during that tour they shared the stage w/ Smashing Pumpkins, A Tribe Called Quest, George Clinton, Green Day... pretty epic lineup
The Beastie boys are No doubt one of the best groups in music history. I will forever regret never seeing them live. RIP MCA
They were about to come to my city in back in the late 90s but I remember it got cancelled cause mca got injured. ( I think it was mca/adam)
When I was in grade 8 back in 1991, I inherited a mix tape from an older kid at school that was labelled "SNFU and Beastie Boys." I remember listening to it and thinking whoever labelled the tape had made a mistake, because I only knew of Beastie Boys from their hits off of License to Ill, and all the songs on this tape were clearly punk/hardcore. Then, a few years later, when they released Some Old Bullshit, I was like 'oh shit that was Beastie Boys!' Not sure how a mixtape of Polly Wog Stew made its way to the small town in Canada where I grew up, but this brings back a lot of fond memories from this era, especially discovering new music with very few resources to do so compared to today.
I never knew how sampling got started. Big respect to those first guys doing it. Making due with the tools you have instead of making excuses is what sets apart pros and hobbyists.
The Beastie's 'Licensed to Ill' and Run D.M.C's 'Raising Hell' broke rap into the mainstream, and put it on the radar of kids like me who were into skate-punk and hardcore bands at the time. Those two albums took over every ghetto blaster on the block. The Beasties may be white, but if you look at their entire catalogue, they are definitely one of the top artists in the entire genre.
When i was in Year 5/5th Grade i had those two albums on a BASF90 cassette tape, one album on each side. I've probably still got it somewhere.
@@weasel73 😄😄 I had the cassette for Raising Hell, and the vinyl for License to Ill. I ended up copying both of them to a cassette, one on each side 👍🤘. Then had another cassette with LL Cool J's first two albums. I thought I was the shit at the local halfpipe 😄
Right! 💓 they got me. I do not listen to Wu -Tang ever ... This is their hit on me.
They were easily the most versatile . And the very best….
Beastie Boys was my gateway to so much music! Both hip hop and punk! I will always appreciate what their music did for me.
you said it perfectly. these guys were always so unapologetically themselves in such a way that just popped. they litteraly never ever ever missed which is almost impossible
I was 17 in ’86 and “License to Ill” was MASSIVE!
It absolutely changed the landscape of popular music the same way Nirvana did a few years later. It got suburban white kids into rap when the year before, they were into Iron Maiden and Motley Crue.
I cannot understate the absolutely seismic shift that release had on youth culture just here in NorCal back then. For me now, “Paul’s Boutique” and especially “Check your head” and “Ill Communication” are better albums by far which I still return to…
And I’m a Metalhead. Great video!
@Lincoln Hirschi I actually didn’t get turned onto them until a few years later when my tastes had matured a bit. I thought PB was “weird” when I first heard it, but those other two grabbed me and made me an instant fan!
This was after being introduced to HipHop through PE and Ice-T, of course.
(By way of Anthrax! Haha!)
@Lincoln Hirschi 4 years. 86, 89, then 92
License to Ill is cultural appropriation trash. Thank God they realized what they were doing and finally embraced real Hip Hop. The Beastie Boys of the 80s deserve an ass kicking for being racist little shits.
@@hadara69ignorant white boys
@@hadara69So you could only enjoy Hip Hop when it was fed to you through some white boys first? That's not something I'd be proud to admit.
Loved hearing the Gang Starr name drop. To me, that is still some of the best hip rop/rap ever created. Nice references as usual!
I got tickets for Beasties and RUN DMC summer of 19887 I was 15. Dad was mowing the lawn and had a massive heart attack. Mom called a few hours later from the hospital and she told me Dad said he knew how much that concert meant to me and I better go or he'd be mad!! Dad just turned 84 a couple weeks ago and I'll be 51 next week.
There have been a few moments in my life where I can specifically remember the very first time I heard a band, and Beasty Boys is one of those times. It was 1986, I was 12 years old and had just gotten off of the school bus with some other kids from the neighborhood. The kid that lived in the house in front of where the bus dropped us off immediately ran into his house, opened up his bedroom window and blasted Fight For Your Right as loud as his boom box would go. I was blown away bc I had never heard anything like that before, but I've been a huge fan ever since. I only got to see them live once in 1998 during the Hello Nasty tour with Tribe Called Quest in St. Louis.
I'm glad you appreciate Check Your Head. Pass the Mic is my fave Beastie Boys song of all time. It's still a jam to this day.
To this day, I have so much respect for the beastie boys because tbh I first heard them on guitar hero 3 and fell in love. They introduced me into that music and diversified my musical outlook!
Great video, I showed my 3 and 5 year old boys the intergalactic video around 3 months ago because of the robot and now they are obsessed blasting out loads of their songs on youtube pretty much every day 🤣
This made me go back and listen to their full discography. It’s amazing from start to finish. They definitely don’t get mentioned as much as they should.
The friendship with Biz Markie led me to listen to his albums. I am thankful to this band for opening my ears to other things and learn to just enjoy music
You broke down the Beastie Boys fantastically here!!!! Also thanks for shouting out DFL. Their album Proud To Be is one sick and underrated record.
I was lucky enough to see Beastie Boys in Dec 2004, when they toured the UK. It was my first year at Uni and I blew 2 week's food budget on tickets, travel and overpriced venue beers. It was totally worth it though. Even all these years later, it was a top 5 gig for me. I'm so happy Finn has covered Beastie Boys. He covered some different ground to the also brilliant Beastie Boys Story on Apple TV. Man, I cried my heart out to that. It's was such a beautiful love letter from the Mike D and Ad Rock to their fallen brother, MCA.
For me personally, this is one of Finn's best videos ever. Love it!
Ill Communication is a start to finish album for me. This album has Sure Shot, Root Down, Heart Attack, and Eugene's Lament all on one fucking album. It's everything, and in a way that makes it New York as fuck, and I will always love them for repping NYC so hard.
Always had love for the Beastie Boys, ever since I was in fourth grade and Intergalactic came out. Good point on their influence being such a widespread thing that people don't even realize it. A lot of musical and cultural movements wouldn't have happened without the Beasties, they really helped unite rap fans, rockers, hipsters, skaters, etc and break down a lot of musical and cultural barriers. Excellent video.
Great video. They helped me as a HS freshman Bay Area thrash metalhead discover hip hop, punk, and NYHC. And my musical palette has been expanding ever since.
Good to see Check Your Head getting some love. Definitely my favourite from them overall.
I grew up with the beasties. My all time favorite band and I still play them daily. Check your Head was a huge influence on me in my adolescence. Definitely helped me branch out to more east coast rap, and some hardcore. Great video Finn.
Thank you. I've been waiting so long for you to do a video on the Beastie Boys. Their book and live documentary film were amazing like their music. RIP Adam 'MCA' Yauch.
Been there since the beginning with stake broad and boom box in hand . Can say they paved the way . I’m still a big fan and always will be . As everyone should be . Got to see them twice in the 90s . Will never forget it . Input up there as one of the high light of my life . I have seen Johnny Cash and June Carter live also !
They still influence me. Beastie Boys for life !!!!
Solid episode, Finn! We needed this one.. long overdue appreciation of the Beastie Boys
One of my top three bands ever. Beastie Boys had mad respect across the board pretty much. RIP MCA ♥️
Now I’m curious about your other 2
personally The Mix up will always be a personal fav, that record just shows how amazing they really were as musicians. serious grooves.
Yeah...... The In Sound From Way Out was my favorite album as a kid
Awesome as always Finn.
I'm a few years older than you (76) and from a small country town in Victoria, Australia. I thought I was a skater as I had one of those big fat old school skateboards at the age of 9-10. So anyways, my two older sisters had a house-party and I was banished to my room. Clear as day, I remember Rhymin & Stealin pumping through the house before being ejected and a "smash hits" various pop tape replacing it.
The next morning, I was stoked to find the original Licensed To Ill tape left behind. I'd never heard anything like it in my life and for some reason I figured it was "Skating Music". It took many a listen before I "got-it", but that was it for me - skating, playing bass, punk, hardcore, metal and rap was my jam from then on. Had my first weed listening to Check Your Head with my mates. First real job in IT with Hello Nasty. So many memories.
The only thing I'd add to your excellent video and thoughts is that their first forays into the frat-boy raps were meant as a joke. They then leant into it further after the track(s) got picked up - and I certainly don't blame them. :o)
Once again Finn Mckenty you have managed to make me feel old LOL. I graduated high school 5 months before License to Ill came out.
We immediately loved it. I had always had eclectic taste I grew up on R&B rap music was just peeking through I Remember Loving groups like Sugarhill Gang Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Kurtis Blow and that was before Run-DMC and LL Cool J really came out. At the same time I was straight up into heavy Rock young listen to Def Leppard and Motley Crue and AC DC Aerosmith. So Beastie Boys were just a natural progression to me. It took me at least a year before I really started the light Paul's Boutique because you're right it was very different from License to Ill. By the time check your head came out music to me was in an all-time high. You had the grunge movement you had gangster rap you had tons of underground bands coming to the Forefront Red Hot Chili Peppers one of my favorite bands. You had these incredible rap groups like Cypress Hill. The Beastie Boys fit in perfectly with that time it was such an Eclectic time. I mean you could love R&B you could love Pop you could love heavy metal you could love thrash. I remember when I first heard sabotage it was the year I moved away from my home to another state. I remember having that on cassette as I'm driving to my new home where I've now been for 26 years. Have to say as a fifty-three-year-old I'm incredibly proud of the Beastie Boys and the Legacy they created how they went from frat boy rappers to speaking about peace and love and respecting women and people having equal rights.
Beastie Boys were a huge influence.
Check your head and ill communication were both soundtracks to my life as a teenager.
These are the copy paste wiki episodes that Finn hates to make so lets make sure we share it around, like and subscribe and even install Mech Arena and claim our free starter pack. We need to let our opinions be known.
Back in the day my mom bought my sister and I tickets to The Beastie Boys (failed) Rhyme and Reason tour. We were so bummed when the tour was canceled. I started listening to The Beastie Boys because my older and cooler sister did. I was a young alternative / metalhead, and seeing them combine so many genres definitely influenced me to broaden my musical horizons. And to not be timid or apologetic for for being into a variety of music and art.
I remember when Licensed to Ill came out, I was in high school. It was a complete mind-blow. I got to see them live with Run-DMC, great memories!
I was 16 in 86 and saw that tour, it was a great show! That album raised the bar for party music as young teens skating . It's interesting to listen to LL Cool Js albums that came out at the time. He had a lot of the same beats and tempos. Story is that BBoys introduced LL Cool J to Rick Ruben, BBoys discovered Cool J at NYC University on the mic at a college party. They were on a mission to get Cool J in the studio with Rick.
Paul's Boutique was The Biggest Album my freshman year of college in '89. You could hear it pumping out of dorm rooms into the quad at Porter College all day, any day and every day. I have several copies of the fold out wrap around vinyl edition.
Liscenced To Ill is one of my top 5 records of any artist throughout all genres. It completely changed the way I looked at the things that defined the differences between the genres. They brought everyone together, and the record was a masterpiece. Literally every song on the record could have been a single.
The Beastie Boys are definitely one of my favourite bands and shaped so much of my musical tastes from my adolescence onwards. Long live the Beastie Boys! Rest in power Adam Yauch
They are so unique. They are pioneers. One of my favorite bands . RIP MCA
Liscence to I'll was my first album I bought by them in 9th grade and I was obsessed with the Beasties all through high school and even 20 yrs later. I even had the poster for the music video for Sabotage on my wall growing up. They were such huge musical influences for me and were very talented with not only rapping and singing but playing and creating original music on each album and always staying true to themselves.
Hello Nasty didn’t do anything new musically????? Wtf?! That album is a journey. From 808 bass playing like a double kick drum, to classics like Intergalactic, there’s jazz, and some crazy one off songs that defy genre. It was groundbreaking, and once it caught on, everyone I knew was rapping this album a cappella from start to finish
It's HALLO Nasty!
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FR though omg
The Beastie Boys are easily one of my favorite bands of all time and one of the best ever in general, imo. Been a huge fan since I was 4-5 years old and I’m almost 30 now.
This is one of the most interesting bands, forever linked to the scene and to our lifes as well. Nice work man!! 🇵🇹
The Beastie's were the quintessential band for me growing up. "She's On It" was the first single I ever heard and was able to catch them on their Hello Nasty Tour and again for Five Burroughs. Good shit.
Just a couple of months ago I was listening to all their discography and thinking of how influentials they are, and also how almost no one mention them
Mix master Mike is an amazing DJ, his solo albums are crazy! Probably my favourite DJ ever
Phenomenal video man! Beastie Boys are far too often overlooked and you nailed this one!
I listen to ill communication almost every week, love this guys! Excelente video!
If you haven't yet, definitely check out the Beastie boys memoir. The audio book is also really well done being read by Mike and adam along with several other people. If you like Finn's video here you'll love the book.
A great sum up here. Too many people don't realize how important they were. "Check Your Head' was the one for me. My friend in 9th grade bought it for me for my birthday. I never looked back!! That cassette was stuck in my stereo for weeks!! Over and over. RIP MCA. x
I still remember arguing with my musician coworker when he said Beastie Boys wasn’t one of the most influential bands in today’s music 🤯
Top 5 favorites of all time not only as a band but also as a live show. Tribe Called Quest and the Beastie Boys at old McNichols Arena in Denver 1998 hands down one of the best experiences of my life. Thanks for posting!!
I just wanted to mention the instrumental Album "The In Sound from Way Out!" from 1996. It pretty much contrasts all the other music they did. It shows a funky/jazzy side and is pretty impressive instrumentaly!
And my mother loves it.... that's worth something right?
While I don’t play a genre that is influenced by their sound, they’ve influenced me so much throughout my musical career. Definitely when I was playing in punk and hardcore bands. Now the influence for me is the way they played whatever they wanted and still it somehow worked and made sense. Being able to blend genres like they did is so inspiring and keeps it interesting.
As a 90s teen, I all wanted is to be a Beastie Boy, they represented what cool was
This.
"The Beastie Boys
They are, they're comin' home"
I love the Beastie Boys the diversity of sounds and styles like: Time for Livin, Get it Together, So What 'cha Want, Tuff Guy, Shake Your Rump, Root Down, and so many more! Plus I still love wearing Puma's with an SNFU beanie and they play the beats using acoustic instruments! Great Episode Finn!
There's a six-part series on the history of the Beastie boys on a podcast called NO DOGS IN SPACE.
It could be found on Spotify Apple music and everywhere else.
Mate , thank you so much for this tip for a podcast! plenty of amazing bands there
I'm a 52 year old Beastie Boy. They had a major influence on my life till this day.
All 3 Beasties are ethnic minorities, so "white rappers" feels incredibly off (especially as someone who is of the same background as them). They're a great group, though. Was surprised to learn that they were originally a punk band. I dig the punk material too.
It can feel off to you but that doesn’t change the facts
@@ThePunkRockMBA How is it factual if there are people who actually belong to that group (which, might I add, you don't) disagreeing with you?
What you just said to me right now is textbook whitesplain, and I honestly expected better than that from you.
@@ThePunkRockMBA Jews aren't white. Some Jews are light-skinned, but they're not white. The Beastie Boys are Jewish rappers, not white rappers.
@@pixie71880 Basically, yeah. Jews are Levantine, so unless one considers Syrians, Jordanians, Lebanese, et al to be "white" (and I seriously doubt he would), you can't logically claim that Jews are white.
Many thanks. Never realized how Beasties impacted so many different scenes. Maybe the reason no one cites them as an influence is it was always hard to hold them down - their style changes too quickly and most people stick to 1 lane. They reinvented themselves so many times, people just got confused - they were decades ahead of their time on so many fronts.
The beasties were more important to the 90s than every 'grunge' band.
They were as much, if not more, influential than the the Beatles.
@ghost mall just an opinion, bud
I agree with you. Never had the mainstream success of the Beatles but their influence, directly or indirectly, is on that level.
Beastie Boys and Prodigy are the two bands that pretty much paved the way to our current scene where genres are all mixed and alternative culture embodies basically everything.
Aren't you the long lost fourth member of the Beastie boys Finn lol?
Beastie Boys are largely overlooked for their influence and contributions. I grew up on these guys. Got to see them with the Buddhist monks and Q-Tip back in the 90s. Much love and happiness over the years because "life ain't nothing but a good groove, a good mix tape to put you in the right mood." 💛
Beastie Boys are one of my all time favorites, listened to Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head endlessly throughout high school.
Why are you yelling at me?
As a Beastie Boys diehard, you did pretty well with this video. Thanks for spreading the message.
The Beastie Boys are their generation's Beatles. Yeah, I said it.
Excellent job on this video! You gave the Beastie Boys the respect and credit they deserve
Got to see them at Bonnaroo 2009, one of, if not the last show before MCA died. May he Rest In Peace.
Beastie Boys used to get dismissed by hip hop because they were Rock and they used to get dismissed by Rock because they were Hip Hop.
I got to see them with Run DMC in DC in 1987 as a 10 year old. 😂 I'm not even a big hip/hop fan but that was very much an amazing, life changing experience. One of the greatest shows I've ever been to still to this day 🤘
Beastie Boys have been my favorite band for 12+ years now. They inadvertently turned me to the hardcore/deathcore/metalcore scene simply because some of their riffs were just so damn heavy.
Thank you for covering my favorite band of all time. RIP MCA
I love the Beastie Boys and even had the thrill of meeting them backstage way back in 2004. Thanks for putting together this great history video. I think the reason they don’t get cited as an influence is because of how many times they reinvented themselves. If an artist said they were influenced by them, the next question is, which era? It’s probably easier to cite a band with a more consistent sound as an influence. But of course, the reinvention is what made them great.
Never got to see them live, but they were a huge influence with rap music....but. Check Your Head was just something else. Such a great album. Combo of the rap and then them playing their instruments, sort of punk rock mindset, and it worked. Definitely in my top 10 all time albums.
Legit one of my top 5 favorite bands and Paul’s Boutique is legend status, I listen to it at least once a week since 89’
I had no idea about how influential they were. But it makes sense. I remember listening to the Teriyaki Boyz and seeing Adrock featured / producing for them. Also, I'm a big fan of Butter 08, which was signed to Grand Royal.
I remember taking my brother's Paul's Boutique CD when I was a kid and from there Beastie Boys became the first band I got obsessed with